CK:
Sadly Air Pig it's very rarely the "serpents" to blame once you start digging.
Well I'm afraid I'm with air pig on this one CK. The Bowman fiasco, so well described by tucumseh above is a case in point. There is no moral justification in "merely obeying orders" as a CS or SO at the MOD if you know that the result is going to be as tuc describes. The lives of our servicemen and woman are directly threatened when this expensive tat is foisted on them. If Lt Caley tells you to go into a Vietnamese village and "take out" the occupants you
must refuse the order and encourage others to do likewise, reporting him to higher authority ASAP. To my mind orders to deliberately ignore Airworthiness Regulations which you are mandated to uphold are also illegal, as are those to pass off equipment that is clearly not fit for purpose. One hopes against hope for a change of attitude to such "procedures" at the Ministry of Defence.